“Tonight I’m going to my local theatre for a midnight premier of The Hobbit and shooting the (expletive) out of everyone there.”

“Tonight I’m going to my local theatre for a midnight premier of The Hobbit and shooting the (expletive) out of everyone there.”

WORCESTER [Massachusetts] — A College of the Holy Cross student who threatened on social media to use an arsenal of guns and grenades inside a movie theatre is being held on $100,000 cash bail, following his arraignment today on four counts of threatening to commit a crime.

Gregory Hamalian, 21, of 79 Crescent St., West Bridgewater, a member of the Holy Cross track team, was arraigned in Central District Court today on four counts of threatening to commit a crime and one count of making a bomb/hijack threat.

The Holy Cross junior allegedly threatened to attack a screening of “The Hobbit” and allegedly wrote on social media sites that he admired the man who shot up a Colorado movie theater.

“I’ve been planning this ever since my hero, James Holmes, shot up that theatre in CO,” Mr. Hamalian allegedly posted on a social networking web site. “Tonight I’m going to my local theatre for a midnight premier of The Hobbit and shooting the (expletive) out of everyone there.”